Radu Albot and Pavel Kotov will face off in the qualifications of the Miami Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 1:30 pm on COURT 3. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Radu Albot who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Radu Albot is the pick to win this match.
Radu Albot -> 1.75
Pavel Kotov -> 1.99
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Prediction and head to head Radu Albot vs. Pavel Kotov
This will be the 2nd time that Radu Albot and Pavel Kotov square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Kotov (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
The last time that they played, Kotov won 6-2 6-3 in the 1st round in the Lugano Challenger back in 2022.
Radu Albot
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26-34 | 15-14 | 11-16 | 0-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 37-26 | 12-9 | 17-11 | 4-3 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 39-34 | 10-13 | 13-8 | 12-10 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 40-30 | 25-14 | 4-6 | 3-5 | 8-5 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 22-27 | 4-9 | 2-8 | 13-6 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 110, Radu reached the qualifications after defeating Elias Ymer 6-75 6-4 7-64.
In the qualifications against Ymer, Albot recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (6-75 6-4 7-64). During the match, Albot scored 116 points vs Ymer’s 113. Albot was very aggressive to blast 50 winners.
Regarding the service games, Albot scored 2 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Radu Albot was pretty efficient on serve to win 72% (50/69) of his 1st serve and 61% (30/49) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Moldovan broke Ymer twice after converting 50% of his break points (2/4).
Albot has favorable record in the last 10 years having won 55% of his matches (330-274). 5-7 on hard in 2023. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Albot has a composed 141-115 match record in the last years on hard.
Radu’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in Delray Beach.
Radu has an overall 8-10 win-loss record in 2023, 5-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Miami
Pavel Kotov
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11-22 | 9-14 | 2-7 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 20-25 | 9-11 | 11-9 | 0-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 45-32 | 13-14 | 20-12 | 9-2 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 37-20 | 5-3 | 20-9 | 12-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 29-25 | 5-5 | 7-11 | 17-9 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 117, the Russian got to the qualifications after defeating Tung-Lin Wu 6-2 7-65.
In the qualifications, The Russian had a good straight sets win against Wu (6-2 7-65). During the match Kotov scored 72 points vs Wu’s 63. Pavel was quite aggressive to blast 35 winners.
About the serving games, Kotov bagged 8 aces and he was extremely solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Overall, Pavel Kotov was quite efficient on serve to win 71% (35/49) of his 1st serve and 56% (14/25) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Pavel broke Wu 3 times after converting 50% of his break points (3/6).
Kotov has a compiled 9-8 win-loss record in 2023, 9-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Miami
Kotov has never competed in this tournament before.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Albot | Kotov |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 36 | 21 |
| Pts | 116-113 | 72-63 |
| Total Points | 229 | 135 |
| Winners | 50 | 35 |
| %Winners | 43% | 49% |
Both Albot and Kotov played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Radu Albot conceded 1 set while Pavel Kotov hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Albot has played 1 set more than Kotov (3 vs 2). Therefore, Albot played 15 games more than Kotov. The Moldovan scored 50 winners (43% of the total points). On the other side, The Russian bagged 35 winners (49%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Albot | Kotov |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 2 | 8 |
| Avg per match | 2 | 8 |
| 1st in | 69/118 | 49/74 |
| %1st in | 58% | 66% |
| 1st pts | 50/69 | 35/49 |
| %1st pts | 72% | 71% |
| 2nd pts | 30/49 | 14/25 |
| %2nd pts | 61% | 56% |
Albot managed to score 2 aces . Kotov scored 8 aces . Albot won 72% points behind his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 61% of the points. On the other side, Kotov won 71% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 56% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Albot | Kotov |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 2 | 3 |
| Converted | 2/4 | 3/6 |
| % Converted | 50% | 50% |
| Conceded | 7 | 10 |
| Saved | 6 | 9 |
| % Saved | 86% | 90% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 |
Albot broke his opponent twice with a 50% conversion rate. The Moldovan surrendered his serve once and he saved 86% of the break points that he conceded. Pavel broke his opponent 3 times with a 50% conversion rate. Kotov conceded his serve once and he saved 90% of the break points that he conceded.
| Albot | |||
| Q1 Ymer |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-75 6-4 7-64 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 36 | 36 | |
| pts | 116-113 | 116-113 | |
| Total points | 229 | 229 | |
| Winners | 50 | 50 | |
| %Winners | 43% | 43% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 69/118 | 69/118 | |
| % 1st in | 58% | 58% | |
| 1st pts | 50/69 | 50/69 | |
| % 1st pts | 72% | 72% | |
| 2nd pts | 30/49 | 30/49 | |
| % 2nd pts | 61% | 61% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/4 | 2/4 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 7 | |
| Saved | 6/7 | 6 | |
| Saved % | 86% | 86% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Kotov | |||
| Q1 Wu |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 7-65 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 21 | 21 | |
| pts | 72-63 | 72-63 | |
| Total points | 135 | 135 | |
| Winners | 35 | 35 | |
| %Winners | 49% | 49% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 8 | 8 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 49/74 | 49/74 | |
| % 1st in | 66% | 66% | |
| 1st pts | 35/49 | 35/49 | |
| % 1st pts | 71% | 71% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/25 | 14/25 | |
| % 2nd pts | 56% | 56% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/6 | 3/6 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 10 | 10 | |
| Saved | 9/10 | 9 | |
| Saved % | 90% | 90% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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